I love my Power Awning

8iron wrote:

bid_time wrote:

Duke-44 wrote:
My wife could never operate a manual awning if a storm came up and I were off somewhere. The awning would be toast. She can push a button though.

Wow - I can't beleive the implications you asserted regarding your wife! My kids could operate the awning as soon as they could reach the lever. It's pretty simple flip the lever one way it goes up, flip it the other way it comes down. Couple of latches and your done.

While I guess I asserted the same implications in a previous post, my wife is a university educated, former corporate Director at one of the largest luxury hotel chains in the world and the smartest person I know. If faced with the prospect of having to manually bring the awning down by herself, she would choose to just not put it up in the first place. She, and a lot of other women I know are wired this way.

I agree. There are a whole lot of things my wife can do, but chooses not to. However, if faced with the choice of (a)putting up the awning, or (b) risk a several hundred dollar loss - she will put the awning up. She just isn't wired to sit back and take a unnecessary loss. But I would never imply that my wife "couldn't" __________. And she would never choose not to do something as easy as putting an awning up before a storm. If I would have made that comment above and my wife read it, I would be toast.